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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel Delaney…
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The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters “The real unhappiness of The Fall of the Faculty is over what the “administrative university” will look like. What administrators hanker after is a university run like any other business. That leads them to view the rambunctiousness of faculty with deep…
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There are perhaps 900m consumer PCs on earth, and maybe 800m corporate PCs. The consumer PCs are mostly shared and the corporate PCs locked down, and neither are really mobile – at best you can take them from table to table. Those 3bn smartphones will all be personal, and all mobile. What does mobile scale…
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
protoslacker: I just finished reading Marshall McLuhan’s seminal book of media studies, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man first published in 1964. I read the book back in the mid-1970’s and was impressed with the ideas in it then. I was curious how it held up after nearly 50 years. Read More